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• Down below in the privy kitchen they are roasting dottrels for dinner.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 461. From the entry dottrel
• Meanwhile, as many as eight "grooms of the stool" waited on kings when at privy.2014, Leonard Sweet, “Setting the Table at Home”, in From Tablet to Table: Where Community is Found and Identity is Formed, Colorado…. From the entry groom of the stool
• Spectators are privy to awe inspiring castles, baffling forks, and breathtaking en passants.1998 December 11, Glenn Kaplan, “Chess: not just for losers, but also Trekkies”, in The Oberlin Review, volume 127, number 12, Oberlin…. From the entry en passant
• We live in tamboos – a sort of cross between a cowshed and an outdoor privy.1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 804. From the entry tamboo
• Guaranteed to be the comf’tablest, most anitomical privy seat in Jefferson County!1943, John Wallace, from conversations with Zackary Adams, Village Down East: Sketches of Village Life on the Northeast Coast of New…. From the entry comf'table
• I’m forever whitewashing after them, whitewashing off the scandalosities they do be scrabbling on the privy walls.1927, Kathleen Coyle, Shule Agra, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 118. From the entry scandalosity
• During some wet years you may be privy to viewing an armada of newts, as they are collectively called.2024 January 29, Kathleen Scavone, “Discover Napa Valley's diverse wildlife on a winter walk”, in Napa Valley Focus, archived from the…. From the entry armada
• The younger millennials are more privy to double texting.2018 March 20, Brittany Bennett, “7 Ways Older Millennials Text Differently Than Younger Millennials”, in Bustle, New York, N.Y.: Bustle…. From the entry double texting
• Gong is derived from the Old English gang, meaning ‘to go’, and referred to both a privy and its contents.2014, Terry Breverton, chapter 26, in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tudors but Were Afraid to Ask, Amberley Publishing. From the entry gong scourer
• American males often used British terms such as Cousin John or Jake to refer to a privy or a chamber pot.2001, “Public Privies to Private Baths”, in The Guide to United States Popular Culture, page 645. From the entry Cousin John
• Every effort should be made to flyproof the privy and to disinsectize it daily with lime or a similar agent.1994, Robert L. Metcalf, William H. Luckmann, Introduction to Insect Pest Management, page 615. From the entry disinsectize
• Worse than that, too, during Rag Week when the drink flowed quickly and the privy seemes too far to stagger.1987, Terry Pratchett, Mort, page 222. From the entry rag week
• He was not privy to what they were finding.1987, Greg Bear, “Lacrimosa Dies Illa!”, in The Forge of God (science fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83. From the entry bogey
• But there is nothing in the taste of bananas that I am missing, nothing that my bananaphile friend is privy to that I am not.2018, Michael Haworth, Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN. From the entry bananaphile
• A gong scourer (also gongfermor or gong farmer) was the man or boy who dug out and removed human faeces from privies and cesspits.2014, Terry Breverton, chapter 26, in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tudors but Were Afraid to Ask, Amberley Publishing. From the entry gong scourer
• He is a Libertarian, does not vote, and we are all privy to the goings on in his crotch (particularly his notcher).2000 December 13, Super Lucky Egg, “AMR FAQ (Rough Draft)”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet). From the entry notcher
• Here I was, embosomed in the very nave, the very omphalos of furtive femininity—a prize patron of the women's restaurant, a member, privy to its innermost secrets.2014, T.C. Boyle, The Collected Stories Of T.Coraghessan Boyle. From the entry omphalos
• At various times, that place also has been called a privy chamber, a necessary room, the smallest room in the house, and even “where the queen goes alone.2012, Justin Cord Hayes, The Unexpected Evolution of Language: Discover the Surprising Etymology of Everyday Words, Simon and Schuster…. From the entry necessary room
• Even when probouleutic discussion was opened up to a larger number of individuals - as on 6 October - meetings continued to operate independently of the privy council.2005, Natalie Mears, Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry probouleutic
• So far as he's concerned, all dem he don't know oughta be tried and sentenced tuh six months behind de United States privy house at hard smellin'.1937, Zora N. Hurston, chapter XIX, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, page 255. From the entry privy house
• At first he was closely confined there, but one day he broke the privy window and escaped to Shehad, the bibulous Emir, in his suburb of Awali.1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 155. From the entry bibulous

Meaning of privy

1. adjective Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
2. adjective Secret, hidden, concealed.
3. adjective With knowledge of; party to; let in on.

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Questions about privy in a sentence

How do you use privy in a sentence?

Privy is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The king retreated to his privy chamber.”

What is a short sentence with privy?

“the privy purse”

What does privy mean?

Privy means private, exclusive; not public; one's own.